SPLC Takes State-Run N.O. Schools To Task
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A civil rights organization complains that many children with disabilities aren't being served well by public schools in New Orleans.
The Southern Poverty Law Center said Thursday that only 6.8 percent of students with disabiities graduate in schools run by the Louisiana Recovery School District, the state agency that took over most New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina.
As it released a study called "Access Denied," the SPLC also complained about disciplinary practices at some schools, saying Recovery District schools had expulsion rates 100 times the national average in the 2007-08 school year. State officials had not yet seen the report Thursday afternoon but were expected to comment later.
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